Question about Fbreader and html files with embedded jpg's

[Liviu]

Hi,

I have reformatted to 800x480 jpg, (each page cut horizontally in 2),
the 11 math books I had formatted for Ebookwise, embedded the jpg's in
an empty html file and loaded them on the MMC card (through the MMC
drive on my pc since USB is too slow) and then on the Nokia.
The biggest book is about 40 Mb (~850 page book so ~1700 jpg's) on my
xp so probably even bigger on the card, and I am impressed. Fbreader
loads it as fast as a 500 kb regular book, the page turning is also as
fast as a regular book.
Comparing this with loading the same book in pdf format where going
through even a page can take ages even in Evince and it is worth the
processing time. (especially that Colinux does most of the work by
itself :))
Plus, I do not need to scroll since the cutting in half makes the
800x480 image very clear on the Nokia even at the lower quality that I
transform it from pgm (ddjvu page to pgm, pnmtojpeg -quality=25 pgm to
jpg), while on the Ebookwise the same image was far less clear due to
the lower 448x318 resolution, even if the screen is bigger.
When I turn pages in Fbreader, I have a picture, a blank page, a
picture, a blank page. My question is if this is intrinsic to this type
of file (html made only of images each being exactly one screen of
Nokia), or is due to my crude way of embedding the jpg's in html (I
open a blank html in MsWord and do insert pictures, select all in the
appropriate directory and insert). Since the page turning is so fast, I
do not mind having the in-betwwen blank page, but just wondering...

Thank you,

Liviu

[Kasper Souren]

> Comparing this with loading the same book in pdf format where going
> through even a page can take ages even in Evince and it is worth the
> processing time. (especially that Colinux does most of the work by
> itself :))

It would be great to have a little script automizing pdf->fb2 conversion...